Articles

An Optimistic Tragedy? An Optimistic Tragedy?

For years, if they wished to be honest, observers of the Soviet Union had to work like archeologists, digging below the political surface to discover real social changes takin...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

All Power to the Soviets All Power to the Soviets

Four days that fascinated the Soviet people.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

What Price Gloire What Price Gloire

The only free Kanaks are dead ones, the outgoing French government might have argued.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show The Mitterrand-Chirac-Barre Show

Most French voters, judging by opinion polls, are bored with the current presidential campaign. No wonder.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Poland–Ashes and Diamonds Poland–Ashes and Diamonds

Prices were raised sharply in Poland on January 30, by an estimated 40 percent, and hell did not break loose.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Les Affaires, or Zola Was Right Les Affaires, or Zola Was Right

In the electioneering mood of France at the turn of the year, the good advice is not, as in a whodunit, cherchez la femme but cherchez l'argent.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

People’s Sellout People’s Sellout

Wall Street did not simply drag Europe's exchanges down in its fall.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

From Public TV to ‘Dallasty’ From Public TV to ‘Dallasty’

The battle over French television is now being joined in earnest.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks

What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

The Lessons of Defeat The Lessons of Defeat

The hour has not yet struck for an offensive by the left in Western Europe.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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